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Tenant Protection Measures in Marin
ByCarmela Davis September 7, 2024September 7, 2024

Marin’s housing shortage continues to inflict severe hardships on families and local workers struggling to maintain their access to schools, jobs, and other important resources. Behind statistics describing the long-standing housing crisis for Bay Area renters are their stories about painful damage inflicted by our regional shortage of affordable housing: Despite some signs the rental market…

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Sausalito Housing Element Update 9/02/24
ByCarmela Davis September 3, 2024September 4, 2024

This newly amended housing element reduces allowable densities in downtown Sausalito, removes a requirement for permitting analysis and objective design standards, and extends a number of deadlines, and replaces a non-viable housing element site. MEHC, along with a number of pro-affordable housing organizations, wrote to HCD after the certification of the original housing element regarding concerns…

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Housing and Environment: It’s not either/or
ByCarmela Davis August 26, 2024August 27, 2024

Marin’s history of environmental protection is our defining pride. Yet our development practices are fundamentally anti-environmental. Our history of environmental protection is Marin County’s defining pride. Outside narrow strips along Highways 1 and 101, rolling green hills rise and fall, mostly undisturbed by development, before meeting the brooding beauty of miles of untouched coastline. Compare this image with…

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Dr. Tracy Smith speaks on Education Workforce and Housing
ByJenny Silva August 8, 2024August 8, 2024

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Community Land Trusts
ByCarmela Davis July 12, 2024July 12, 2024

Community Land TrustsTaking the cost of land out of the cost of housing, by Tom McCafferty, MEHC board member; Community Land Trust Association of West Marin (CLAM) Project Manager Marin can ensure long-term affordability and enhance communities by utilizing the Community Land Trust model. In an era of escalating home prices and stagnant wages, finding affordable housing…

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Featured | Housing Element | Learn | Perspective | Policy

Housing Elements Update
ByCarmela Davis June 2, 2024April 7, 2025

RHNA Tracking and Housing Element ImplementationJurisdictions will need significant resources to meet commitments Marin’s 6th Housing Element Cycle officially kicked off Jan 31, 2024. Although several Marin cities and towns are still finalizing their housing elements, all jurisdictions must still take action to meet their state housing goals (RHNA, the Regional Housing Needs Allocation). Every April, each jurisdiction…

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Housing and Traffic
ByCarmela Davis April 21, 2024June 17, 2024

HOUSING AND TRAFFIC: Growth restrictions have displaced workers by Warren Wells We’ve all heard that California, and Marin in particular, are facing a severe housing crisis. Home values and apartment rents keep rising, leading owners to cash out and renters to be pushed out. We’ve heard from politicians that we need to build more to keep…

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BAHFA | Learn | Policy

Transform: An Overview of the Positive Climate Impact of the Affordable Housing Bond
ByCarmela Davis April 21, 2024April 21, 2024

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Featured | Learn | Perspective | Projects

A Review of Marin Housing Projects
ByCarmela Davis April 1, 2024April 1, 2024

What’s happening in Marin? A review of active, inactive, and completed housing projects. Every day, it seems there is another headline about a housing project. It might feel like we are experiencing a building boom here. But while we are considering some of the largest projects to be built in decades, such as the Northgate Town Center project…

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BAHFA | Featured | Learn | Perspective | Policy | State Legislation

What the BAHFA?
ByCarmela Davis March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

A short primer on affordable housing, BAHFA and BAHA, and potentially game-changing funding! Marinites overwhelmingly want more affordable housing.According to the Marin County 2023 Community Survey, it is the #1 issue that Marinites would like our local governments to address. But how can we build more affordable housing? And what does this have to do with the…

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